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The following is a poem I wrote in a creativity exercise in the year 2000, after reading a poem by Mary Oliver and answering the question, "Why weren't you Rosslyn?"

I do not have to walk on my hands
          & swing from the trees saying
                   look at me, I am enough-

I do not have to whine, bitch, circumvent, belittle,
           betray, bemoan or be absent-

I can be me.

I do not procrastinate but I rest-
I do not worry but I contemplate-
I do not give advice but I listen-
 
        and I love.

       Rosslyn S. Bernard
       Greeley Colorado



I now ask you the question, why aren't you_________________?
Fill in your name.